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Iran: A Seemingly Unlikely Setting for World’s Fastest Demographic Transition
This is the second post in a series profiling the process of building political commitment in countries whose governments have made strong investments in family planning. Read the first post, on...
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Indonesia: Pioneering Community Outreach Creates Success Story
This is the third post in a series profiling the process of building political commitment in countries whose governments have made strong investments in family planning. Previous posts have profiled...
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Afghanistan’s First Demographic and Health Survey Reveals Surprises [Part One]
Late last year, Afghanistan’s first-ever nationally representative survey of demographic and health issues was published, providing estimates of indicators that had previously been modeled or inferred...
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Afghanistan and Pakistan: Demographic Siblings? [Part Two]
Late last year, Afghanistan’s first-ever nationally representative survey of demographic and health issues was published, providing estimates of indicators that had previously been modeled or inferred...
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The Missing Links in the Demographic Dividend
The “demographic dividend,” a concept that marries population dynamics and development economics, is on the rise in policy circles – Rajiv Shah, Melinda Gates, and African government ministers have...
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Yemen: Revisiting Demography After the Arab Spring
Along with other countries where the Arab Spring caught hold, Yemen has been gripped by major upheaval over the past year. Although President Ali Abdullah Saleh finally ceded power in February after...
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New Surveys Generate Mixed Demographic Signals for East and Southern Africa
The pace of fertility decline in sub-Saharan Africa will be the single most important factor in whether the global population reaches the UN’s high projection of nearly 11 billion in 2050, or remains...
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The Year Ahead in Political Demography: Top Issues to Watch
2011 and the first half of 2012 have been a remarkable period for political demography, with theories about the relationships between age structure and governance validated in real time by the events...
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Book Review: ‘World Population Policies’ Offers Sweeping Overview of a...
With much attention in the international family planning community directed to the impending anniversary of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development and the closing date of the...
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Iran’s Surprising and Shortsighted Shift on Family Planning
In late July, Iran’s government announced that it would no longer fund family planning programs, a dramatic reversal following 20 years of support. The change is especially abrupt for a country that...
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New UN Population Projections Released: Pockets of High Fertility Drive...
October 31, 2011, was notable not only for the annual ritual of candy and costumes, but also for its designation by the United Nations as the date when global population reached seven billion....
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Why Has the Demographic Transition Stalled in Sub-Saharan Africa?
In a recent post on the new United Nations population projections, I discussed the risk in assuming that countries in sub-Saharan Africa will progress through the demographic transition at a pace...
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For Fast-Growing Countries, Should Aging Be a Concern? Planning for the...
Population aging and decline are frequently described as a threat to countries’ economic development and social stability. Evocative language, such as “demographic winter” and “graying of the great...
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What Can Demography Tell Us About the Advent of Democracy?
Democracy is fickle. Many of the competing theories on the best ways to foment and consolidate plural, inclusive governance or predict its rise and fall focus on political and economic forces. Yet a...
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UN Further Refines Population Projections: 80 Percent Probability of 10-12...
Seasoned demography geeks know to anticipate the release of the UN Population Division’s World Population Prospects in the spring of odd-numbered years. An off-cycle update published last month in...
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Mobile Tech Drives Faster Data Collection for Family Planning Indicators With...
In an effort to revamp the time-intensive process of conducting household surveys to collect health data in developing countries, a new project is using mobile phones and rapid processing techniques...
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What’s Behind West and Central Africa’s Youthful Demographics? High Desired...
Sub-Saharan Africa is often characterized as an outlier in terms of population dynamics and reproductive health. While women are having fewer children around the world, even prompting some places to...
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Afghanistan’s First Demographic and Health Survey Reveals Surprises [Part One]
Late last year, Afghanistan’s first-ever nationally representative survey of demographic and health issues was published, providing estimates of indicators that had previously been modeled or inferred...
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Afghanistan and Pakistan: Demographic Siblings? [Part Two]
Late last year, Afghanistan’s first-ever nationally representative survey of demographic and health issues was published, providing estimates of indicators that had previously been modeled or inferred...
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The Missing Links in the Demographic Dividend
The “demographic dividend,” a concept that marries population dynamics and development economics, is on the rise in policy circles – Rajiv Shah, Melinda Gates, and African government ministers have...
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